Genes and Personality

> As I understood what he was saying that we had our personality passed
> down from generation to generation via memes in our brains.Nonesense. That isn't what he was saying at all. It wasn't even particularly Dawkins' concept - he was using it as an illustration.You are taking the concept of memes too literally - go and read the selfish gene (or wherever you came across memes) again and have a rethink.Cheersr

> but I also have many of his personality traits.Says who? How do you determine the similarity between 'traits'? How do you even *define* traits?Was your father (by accounts from other people) say...generous? Are you? WOW! What an amazing match! Was he intelligent? Are you? WOW!You see what I'm getting at? I mean no disrespect at all - I just want to understand what you base this feeling of similarity on and how you measure it.> Dawkins suggests that it is memesNo no no no no.No he doesn't. You haven't understood a thing about memes if you think this.r